• Joey Krastel, a meteorologist and storm chaser from Maryland, dropped to one knee and asked his boyfriend, Chris Scott, to marry him as the two watched a tornado creep toward them near Tipton, Kan., saying the moment captured "The 2 loves of my life."
• Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, speaking at Harvard University's 368th commencement ceremony, told graduates that a new generation of leaders must "tear down walls of ignorance" and reject isolationism to overcome global problems such as terrorism and climate change.
• Darren Leeds, an auto auction worker in Manheim, Pa., said he ran to get water when he opened the trunk of a car that arrived for sale and found "a guy in there," who was identified by police as a New York City man wanted on parole violations.
• Michael Thibodeaux, 63, the court clerk for Iberia Parish, La., was convicted of 14 corruption-related charges for stealing advance deposit funds, giving false testimony and keeping false public records related to his position.
• Shelley Joseph, a district judge in Newtown, Mass., suspended after being accused of helping a defendant slip out a courthouse back door to evade a federal immigration agent, wants her pay reinstated, calling it unfair for her salary to be taken away while she fights the charge.
• Robert Harris, a spokesman for a Los Angeles police union, said the union is demanding that the city clean up homeless encampments and a station house after a detective in the division that works on Skid Row was diagnosed with typhoid fever and two others showed symptoms.
• Andy Kendrick, a U.S. Coast Guard petty officer, said a man and woman who spent three hours clinging to their capsized 55-foot sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean about 65 miles off Atlantic City, N.J., were pulled to safety by a rescue helicopter.
• Nellie Mbote, 35, a Kenyan citizen who lives in Lee's Summit, Mo., was indicted on federal charges accusing her of paying an American to enter into a fraudulent marriage in 2009 so she could secure permanent U.S. residency or citizenship, prosecutors said.
• Carl Graziano, police chief of Scranton, Pa., said an elementary school was closed for the day after educators, reviewing security footage, realized that a man had entered the building overnight, got naked and spilled a wood cleaner on the gym floor.
A Section on 05/31/2019